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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

NEW RELEASES: ALPHONSE MOUZON - IN SEARCH OF A DREAM; DAVID HAZELTINE - I REMEMBER CEDAR; SPARKLER - I COLORED IT FOR YOU

ALPHONSE MOUZON - IN SEARCH OF A DREAM

No one
had a better understanding of the melding of jazz polyrhythms with rocks
pulsating beat than drummer Alphonse Mouzon is one of the originators of
jazz-rock. With his furious propulsive style, he was welcome in both camps.
Weather Report founders Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Miroslav Vitous brought
him into the premier edition of the band. And as he had shown with Weather
Report, he demonstrates on his 1977 album In Search of a Dream how well he
could integrate acoustic bass into a jazz-rock concept. In duo with Mouzon,
Vitous bows the deep tones on his composition The Light; he grabs the electric
bass on the other compositions. Vitous as well as saxophonist Bob Malik and
keyboard player Stan Goldberg were all part of the 1977 version of Mouzons
touring band. Pianist/keyboarder Joachim Kühn and guitarist Philip Catherine
joined the troupe for the recording of In Search of a Dream. Thus, the session
was a sort of summit meeting of the jazz-rock elite of that time. ~ Amazon

DAVID HAZELTINE - I REMEMBER CEDARThe
late, much beloved pianist Cedar Walton was a major influence to generations of
jazz musicians and especially pianists. None, however, was a greater student of
his work - playing and composing - than David Hazeltine. Over the years
Hazeltine not only studied, inhabited and incorporated Cedar into his own jazz
conception but became a friend as well. This heartfelt tribute to the great man
contains some of his finest compositions - Holy Land, Clockwise, and Turquoise
Twice - performed by Hazeltine, Cedar's longtime bassist David Williams, and
drummer Joe Farnsworth. A session highlight is Hazeltine's solo performance of
Cedar's favorite solo piece, Over The Rainbow. The great master is no longer
with us - long may his music live! ~ Amazon

SPARKLER - I COLORED IT FOR YOUBrooklyn-based
multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum (New York Hieroglyphics) introduces the
debut track by his newest band, Sparkler. Co-produced by Apfelbaum and Aaron
Johnston (Brazilian Girls), featuring Natalie Cressman (vocals, trombone) and
Jill Ryan (vocals, alto sax) I Colored it in for You is a multidimensional
electronic world music track with lyrics as Apfelbaum explains, "about the
act of creating art, and the desire to give it away." Also included with I
Colored it in for You Pts 1 & 2 is a Mix Translation (dub remix) of Pt. 1
by Bill Laswell.